re: Mars 3 picture
That is quite alright. I just posted the link to the image. I am glad it is here as the more folks who can study it and add to the database, the better.
I have read that the image is actually just noise and we are imaging that it is the Martian horizon. Of course after years of hearing about this infamous image it is nice to finally see it, crude as it may be. At the least no one can argue it is the first transmission from the Red Planet, 5 years before Viking 1 and 2.